Within 4 weeks, the US will siege one of Iran’s islands in the Gulf. They’ll use that to control the flow of oil to Asia and Europe. This will cause a depression that the US will ride by printing dollars in exchange for letting oil through.
With that stranglehold, they’ll move on to Malacca and Nigeria within 5 years, in an attempt to corner the oil market and make the world fully subservient.
This might not cause a World War. But it should, and I think the odds are dire.
When… when would I ever need Chromium?
A meme is just a thought that can be transferred and propagate within a population. It’s the thought-equivalent of a gene.
Probably one of the only useful things that Richard Dawkins contributed to society.
I imagine all neighborhoods have some local association that fills this function. It’s just that the USA cosplays as libertarians while being authotitarians.
I hate to drag in Iran into this, but that’s a country where property is respected. You owned a piece of land in the 60s that you never developed, then the revolution came and you fled to LA? Well your plot of land is still sitting there, untouched, in the middle of Tehran, now worth tens of millions of dollars.
As a homeowner in Iran, you own a cone with its tip in the Earth’s core and its base emanating to the edge of the universe. The same applies if ypu own an apartment. You have a veto, changes can only happen by consensus.
Yes, but it also helps the reader. There’s a reason why literature is written in that way.
I hate that proper syntax is now somehow AI speak.
I think Francesca Albanese is just a reader. Readers tend to know how to write.
I guarantee you that most Firefox users do not feel the level of emotions that you do on these issues, either about the AI prompt sidebar or the CEO’s salary. They also don’t use Firefox to spite Google. They use it because they think it’s better than Chromium.
You’re unhappy with Firefox? Easy fork. Off you go. Want to convince me to be mad too? Okay, make your case, but don’t just assume that I’d just have to be mad if I just knew that there’s gasp an AI sidebar that I can use if I want to.
Yeah and they get other devs contributing to their project. Nobody’s making Firefox or Blender as a solo project, but band together with some other nerds and this is what you get.
Hardly imperialistic. Sweden’s stance toward Finland and Norway has always been union rather than protectorate. Sweden did hurt its native population in the North and is still not doing a great job on that front, but imperialism is not the word you’re looking for here.
Last time, they bombed Evin (notorious prison holding political prisoners), murdering the elite opposition figures. This time too they have directly targeted Reformists and opposition leaders, anyone who’s not a hardliner and who’s been working on normalizing the relationship with the West.
From their actions, we can derive their intent. Anyone listening to their words should recluse themselves from society so the rest of us can advance free of the burden that they are.
A lot of those people are actually ultra-racist, which is why they emphasize Persian. They hate Iranian Lurs, Balochis, Turks, Arabs, Kurds. They hate their American/Western counterparts too. And don’t gt them started on Black people.
They’re just racists who think they’re the top White race, true Aryans.
Normal Iranians are not like that. Iran is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural by history as well as by its National myth.
Yeah, I think it’s fascinating to read Claude’s transcripts while it’s working. It’s crazy how you can give it a two-sentence prompt that really is quite complex task, and it splits the problems into chunks that it works through and second-guesses until it’s confident (and usually correct).
Your verbal faculties are bad at math. Other parts of your brain do calculations.
LLMs are a computer’s verbal faculties. But guess what, they’re just a really big calculator. So when LLMs realize that they’re doing a math problem and launch a calculator/equation solver, they’re not so bad after all.
TicketMaster is one of those things I know about because apparently Americans fucking hate TicketMaster.
When you’re married, you give up your voting privileges. Your husband will vote for you. Oh, he only gets one vote of course.
Also, if you’re not married, you’ve clearly shown that you’re not mature enough to vote. A public servant will be designated to vote on your behalf.
For a brief moment on September 10th, 2001, the CIA took a relaxing spa day.
I mean, they did commit arson with a deadly outcome, but Basij are not cops. They’re a junta.
That being said, I strongly oppose the death penalty, I oppose war (fuck the US and fuck Israel), and also fuck the “protestors” that destroyed people’s cars, shops, mosques and homes. I’m an anarchist and a revolutionary, they’re mindless thugs. We are not the same.
Absolutely, I’m not saying we shouldn’t protest. But protests do need to be coupled with a real threat (i.e. “we will go on strike” or similar)
I can’t believe that I haven’t seen the “We are all pawns controlled by something greater” meme before.